Has social media ruined the nightlife?

Mister Vain · 20-10-2014 7:53pm #1

I remember when nightclubs were simple places. They were all about booze, music and getting the shift. Now they've become glorified photo studios where people stand around looking good for facebook photos. So many are glued to their smart phones. They spend more time recording the moment than actually living it. I can't go out and enjoy myself now without people sticking cameras in my face.

foxy06 · 20-10-2014 7:55pm

No my date here seems happy enough. I text him a minute ago and he sent me a smiley face

solomafioso · 20-10-2014 7:55pm

*jots up comment then notices username. Ctrl + A + Delete*

Well played sir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_kWxWn-Zo

TrustedApple · 20-10-2014 7:57pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

I remember when nightclubs were simple places. They were all about booze, music and getting the shift. Now they've become glorified photo studios where people stand around looking good for facebook photos. So many are glued to their smart phones. They spend more time recording the moment than actually living it. I can't go out and enjoy myself now without people sticking cameras in my face.

It still is just walk away from the camera if you don't like them being in your face or just change the nightclub you go to ?.

I see notting wrong being glued to my smart phone LoL might end up finding out some great facts to tell who your trying to get the shift off :P

Mister Vain · 20-10-2014 7:59pm

solomafioso wrote: »

*jots up comment then notices username. Ctrl + A + Delete*

Well played sir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_kWxWn-Zo

Yes clubs were far better when Mr. Vain was around.

castletownman · 20-10-2014 7:59pm

Waking up to discover that you've been tagged in a photo after a night out is this generation's version of cringing when you bump into a girl at mass that you shifted the night before.

solomafioso · 20-10-2014 8:02pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

Yes clubs were far better when Mr. Vain was around.

*nods*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BGwc0LVY

Mister Vain · 20-10-2014 8:02pm

castletownman wrote: »

Waking up to discover that you've been tagged in a photo after a night out is this generation's version of cringing when you bump into a girl at mass that you shifted the night before.

Exactly. I'm always afraid to log into facebook after a night out in case I see an embarrassing photo of myself.

NIMAN · 20-10-2014 11:33pm

No, knobs have ruined Irish nightlife.

Social media will still be there in the morning if you go to a pub and don't surf on your bloody phone, instead decide to have a bit of craic, and God forbid, socializing.

Same people have also ruined the Xmas night out. Used to be mental craic with a chance to make a balls of yourself. The last 3 or 4 I have been at have been very tame, as everyone is afraid of ending up plastered over FB or YT doing something embarrassing that will haunt them for ever.

jimgoose · 20-10-2014 11:34pm

The Backwards Man · 20-10-2014 11:39pm

Nightclubs have always been about two things, maximising profit, minimising hassle. People stuck in their phones rather than sticking their glasses in someone's head can only be a good thing.

Son Of A Vidic · 20-10-2014 11:48pm

2014: And humanity has evolved to a point where Narcissism seems to be perfectly acceptable. Living ones life through a lenses, rather than just living in the moment. Quite sad really.

fleet_admiral · 20-10-2014 11:51pm

Nightclubs have always been shite, you cant have a conversation, they are very expensive, filthy and lots of them are death traps (The old Reds on Westmoreland Street is an exampe). The pub is far better

Kevin McCloud · 21-10-2014 1:07am

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Nightclubs have always been about two things, maximising profit, minimising hassle. People stuck in their phones rather than sticking their glasses in someone's head can only be a good thing.

Was people sticking their glasses in someone's head a common sat night thing, not in my neck of the woods. Where do you live in limerick city is it?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 21-10-2014 1:54am

I remember the days of the digital camera, where you'd take a million photos. To be honest, nobody really takes photos anymore. I mean, I might take a snapchat of me some part of the night sitting on the toilet keeping one eye open, but that doesn't really count, does it

Cupcake_Crisis · 21-10-2014 8:31am

I was doing an Ann Summers party at the weekend, bunch of ladies drinking and laughing at sex toys. Great atmosphere and good fun. Then, all of a sudden, all hell broke lose when girl A discovered that girl B had put an unflattering picture of her up on Facebook. Atmosphere was in the pot from then on.

jimgoose · 21-10-2014 8:35am

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I was doing an Ann Summers party at the weekend, bunch of ladies drinking and laughing at sex toys. Great atmosphere and good fun. Then, all of a sudden, all hell broke lose when girl A discovered that girl B had put an unflattering picture of her up on Facebook. Atmosphere was in the pot from then on.

In fairness that could have gotten a lot worse very fast. :pac:

jester77 · 21-10-2014 8:36am

Going to the wrong places OP. I haven't been to a nightclub in probably 10 years, so I haven't witnessed this phenomenon. I prefer to just hang out with friends in the pub until the small hours, and this definitely doesn't happen there.

dan1895 · 21-10-2014 9:02am

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

2014: And humanity has evolved to a point where Narcissism seems to be perfectly acceptable. Living ones life through a lenses, rather than just living in the moment. Quite sad really.

Not just nightclubs either. Holidays and concert seem to be lived through a lens these days too.

Cupcake_Crisis · 21-10-2014 9:04am

jimgoose wrote: »

In fairness that could have gotten a lot worse very fast. :pac:

Dildos at dawn!

SEPT 23 1989 · 21-10-2014 9:32am

the abolition of slow sets have ruined discos

dont bother · 21-10-2014 11:43am

nightlife in ireland is'nt ruined by social media imo.
i think it's because there's never any middle ground - it's a choice between hipster "twisted pepper" horrible kips with rubbish music, or knacker infested hell holes.

gone are the days of having some sort of middle ground music/people wise.

plus, the younger generation are of age now to join us in these places, and what they do, they will carry over into their nightlife...

i still cant get over how young they all look. children - literally!!!
nearly want to take the drink outta their hands sometimes and tell them to go home to their mammy!

Generic Dreadhead · 21-10-2014 11:47am

I believe it has, I tend to glare at people or make lots of sighs and huffing and puffing and eye rolling when someone gets their phone out

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-10-2014 11:50am

Mister Vain wrote: »

I remember when nightclubs were simple places. They were all about booze, music and getting the shift. Now they've become glorified photo studios where people stand around looking good for facebook photos. So many are glued to their smart phones. They spend more time recording the moment than actually living it. I can't go out and enjoy myself now without people sticking cameras in my face.

No, people absuing and getting addicted to social media has ruined nights out.

I was never a fan of nightclubs for exactly the same reasons you mention - booze was expensive, music was ****e and the place was full of randy perverts - so I'm proabbly not a great critic.

That said, I have been known to go to the bathroom during dinenr out with friends, phone one of them up and start a conversation even though he's sitting at the same table.

smash · 21-10-2014 3:37pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

They spend more time recording the moment than actually living it.

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Living ones life through a lenses, rather than just living in the moment.

It's always a point that comes up when people talk about the use of phones at concerts, clubs etc. My take on it is that not every moment needs to be recorded and I agree that there are way too many people who are constantly looking through a lens but then at the same time it's good to have something to look back on rather than rely solely on memory. As a follow on, I also think the use of smart phones has in a way screwed with our capability to store memories properly. Our brains seem to have become conditioned to discard memory easier when we know that we have a digital version of an event that we can look back on.

RoboRat · 21-10-2014 3:59pm

I haven't been to a nightclub since before smart phones became common so I have no idea.

yeppydeppy · 21-10-2014 4:19pm

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

No, people absuing and getting addicted to social media has ruined nights out.

I was never a fan of nightclubs for exactly the same reasons you mention - booze was expensive, music was ****e and the place was full of randy perverts - so I'm proabbly not a great critic.

That said, I have been known to go to the bathroom during dinenr out with friends, phone one of them up and start a conversation even though he's sitting at the same table.

Why? jayney I know I wouldn't like to speak to someone using the loo while I'm at dinner.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-10-2014 4:36pm

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Why? jayney I know I wouldn't like to speak to someone using the loo while I'm at dinner.

Actual place is irrelevant - I could be outside with the smokers, accross the street, in the kitchen... Not wanting to talk to me on the phone when I'm actually there is the point.

iDave · 21-10-2014 4:38pm

Its getting annoying now you cant do anything without some sticking a camera/phone in your face. Not just nightclubs but every social gathering seems to require it now.

I am pie · 21-10-2014 4:40pm

I feel blessed to have been frequenting night clubs in the 90s before fakebook and camera phones were a thing. People should be left to gurn in peace.

dont bother · 21-10-2014 4:41pm

it's not the pictures they take that annoy me - it's the monday mornings when they decide to upload all their filtered photos where they look great, and HASHTAG EVERYTHING....

eh... we all know yiz dont look like that in reality - dopes!! :P DDHDHHMMMDDHHH!!!

Everlong1 · 21-10-2014 4:44pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

2014: And humanity has evolved to a point where Narcissism seems to be perfectly acceptable. Living ones life through a lenses, rather than just living in the moment. Quite sad really.

See also: obesity. Where we used to worry about kids dying from rickets, TB and polio, we have now bred have a generation of fat bast*rds.

Everlong1 · 21-10-2014 4:47pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the abolition of slow sets have ruined discos

Rain nightclub, The Portobello, Saturday nights. You're sorted.

Call Me Jimmy · 21-10-2014 4:49pm

I know it might be an obvious question with an obvious answer but:

what do people actually get out of takin so many photos? It can't just be attention surely?

Triceratops Ballet · 21-10-2014 5:00pm

this is why I quit facebook this year, enough of stupid duckfaces, and checking in to places just to show off. A lot of people seem to be running their own pr machine, making sure they check in at all the cool places, and deleting photos/comments that don't show them in a positive light. It's so freeing not being part of it, I wouldn't go back!

jimgoose · 21-10-2014 5:15pm

It just goes to show - as a species we don't seem to care about the nightclubs and the restaurants and what-not, we care about communicating. A dozen or so sitting around a fire telling stories in freezing loincloths would be much the same!

the evasion_kid · 21-10-2014 5:51pm

dottie_lottie wrote: »

this is why I quit facebook this year, enough of stupid duckfaces, and checking in to places just to show off. A lot of people seem to be running their own pr machine, making sure they check in at all the cool places, and deleting photos/comments that don't show them in a positive light. It's so freeing not being part of it, I wouldn't go back!

I used to check into the most bizzzare places I could think of,qutanamo bay,top of mount everest,the Rutland centre etc then I had a phase were I used to just post a picture of a potatoe everyday

Uncle Ruckus · 21-10-2014 5:57pm

Nothing worse than when you meet up with a friend for a few quiet drinks and they spend half their time on their smartphone twatting about on FB or twitter. It really is the height of ignorance.

DoYouEvenLift · 21-10-2014 6:06pm

It's not just for nightlife either. During the summer I saw so many tourists walking around who'd stop, take a photo of a view or building for a few seconds and as soon as the picture was taken just leave. It's hilarious, they have the chance to take it all in while they are actually there after spending hundreds or thousands to travel to new places and don't take the time to relax and have a good look.

I haven't taken a camera with me on my last few holidays to make sure I don't do this kind of stuff and since my phone doesn't work abroad I've nothing to distract me. Holidays are way more enjoyable like this rather than wasting time taking pics to post for likes on Facebook or trying to impress family and friends. If they want to see what Paris or Rome or London was like then tell them to just go and enjoy it for themselves rather than seeing everything that's there through a screen first.

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

Nothing worse than when you meet up with a friend for a few quiet drinks and they spend half their time on their smartphone twatting about on FB or twitter. It really is the height of ignorance.

Get up and walk out without saying anything. Do the same if it ever happens on a date too, but ask them to stop first.

MJ23 · 21-10-2014 7:09pm

I remember a time where people sat in the pub and talked to each other. All I see now are tables of bluefaces.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 21-10-2014 7:16pm

Thank God I stopped going to nite clubs about 7 or 8 years ago before all this sh*t began.

catallus · 21-10-2014 7:23pm

MJ23 wrote: »

All I see now are tables of bluefaces.

Everyone's holding their breath? Surely then they'd have red-faces?

Unless they die?

MJ23 · 21-10-2014 8:33pm

catallus wrote: »

Everyone's holding their breath? Surely then they'd have red-faces?

Unless they die?

A blueface is from the light shining from the phone onto yer face.

Holsten · 21-10-2014 8:34pm

Phones are a crutch people can easily use when they are in an awkward situation, can't think of anything to say, on their own etc...

Nightclubs are awkward places so doesn't surprise me people use them all the time in them.

Mister Vain · 21-10-2014 9:05pm

MJ23 wrote: »

I remember a time where people sat in the pub and talked to each other. All I see now are tables of bluefaces.

Avatar themed venues?

Corvo · 21-10-2014 9:05pm

Unfortunately, this is the way it will be for the foreseeable. Social media is totally, 100% engrained into culture now. I lost my IPhone on August 31st, and I mean I adored this bloody thing. Always tapping my pocket to make sure it was still in there, unconsciously taking it out, flicking the screen on button to check for messages and putting it back in my pocket. I decided not to replace it despite it being fully insured.

Best decision I ever made. Sure I have no phone and I'm technically "off the grid" and I'm sure that coastguard helicopter is looking for me, but I can socialise much better and find myself actually striking up conversation with strangers a lot more now.

Bit awkward if you are swapping numbers with a girl in a nightclub and you have to provide a work email or postal address though! :pac:

Mister Vain · 21-10-2014 9:10pm

Corvo wrote: »

Unfortunately, this is the way it will be for the foreseeable. Social media is totally, 100% engrained into culture now. I lost my IPhone on August 31st, and I mean I adored this bloody thing. Always tapping my pocket to make sure it was still in there, unconsciously taking it out, flicking the screen on button to check for messages and putting it back in my pocket. I decided not to replace it despite it being fully insured.

Best decision I ever made. Sure I have no phone and I'm technically "off the grid" and I'm sure that coastguard helicopter is looking for me, but I can socialise much better and find myself actually striking up conversation with strangers a lot more now.

Bit awkward if you are swapping numbers with a girl in a nightclub and you have to provide a work email or postal address though! :pac:

There's no need to go without it completely though. I always bring my phone with me on nights out but the only time I use it is at the end of the night to call a taxi.

Anyone see Love/Hate the other night? Siobhan recording herself riding in the jacks. The dirt bird.

amacca · 21-10-2014 9:23pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the abolition of slow sets have ruined discos

being small,unattractive, bitter and angry ruined nightclubs for me!

TheBeardedLady · 21-10-2014 9:49pm

Holsten wrote: »

Phones are a crutch people can easily use when they are in an awkward situation, can't think of anything to say, on their own etc...

Nightclubs are awkward places so doesn't surprise me people use them all the time in them.

I think that was one of the reasons I smoked in my 20s. Twas a great thing to do with your arms when you were standing around like a pleb.

bb1234567 · 21-10-2014 10:06pm

I think taking funny photos with friends makes a night better lol

ShadowHearth · 21-10-2014 10:32pm

Hmm a big chunk of us from work went for night out on Sunday ( it's a chef night out

), it was not night club, but pub and "last stop" bar/pub. All of us were completely drunk off our tits, all of us dancing and just looking stupid. Was a great night out and there is not a single photo from that evening.
So I guess it depends more on who you go out with: people who just out to have a good crack or people who are looking for material to farm likes on Facebook.

Has social media ruined the nightlife?

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